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Re: GUI
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: GUI |
Date: |
Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:49:43 +0100 |
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Robert Ley <address@hidden> writes:
> Thanks.
> I had found most of that.
> What I had meant is more along the lines of what Tim McNamara said:
>
>
> IMHO here is where we run into the issue of what LilyPond *is.*
> It's a backend with no face, basically. This is something that
> most Windows and Mac users will find hard to grasp initially,
> whereas Unix users will be familiar with such things. To the
> extent that we want to reach out to Windows and Mac users, we need
> to provide them with some way to understand and be comfortable
> with that- otherwise they will install it, double-click and say
> "where's the f*****g application?"
>
>
> Because this is what I did and the 'application' didn't work for my
> particular configuration. So I wondered if there was some other way to
> get LilyPond to do its compiling. I went to the command line pages and
> looked at those.
>
> Also, please remember that some of us, me included, have little experience
> writing command lines, so when you put, as part of the first information on
> command line use:
>
>
> Create a directory to store these scripts,
>
> mkdir -p ~/bin
> cd ~/bin
>
> Create a file called lilypond which contains
>
> exec DIR/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond "$@"
>
> Note: DIR will generally be /Applications/
>
> Create similar files lilypond-book, convert-ly, and any other scripts you
> wish to use, by replacing the bin/lilypond with bin/convert-ly (or other
> program name).
> Make the file executable,
>
> chmod u+x lilypond
>
>
> I have not a clue what you're talking about. Remember I'm on a Mac, so
> 'create a directory' doesn't mean anything to me. Nor does 'create a
> file'. I have to create a file within an application, and since
> LilyPond didn't work in the GUI for me, I had no way to do that.
>
> To answer the last question of yours, no, the information wasn't hard
> to find. You've done a great job of making it easier to find. You
> just said you wanted your mother to be able to find and use it, or at
> least be able to decide that she did or didn't want to use it.
Looks like the proper starting point would be an instructional video
then.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: GUI, (continued)
- Re: GUI, Graham Percival, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI, Mats Bengtsson, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI, Mats Bengtsson, 2009/12/19
- Re: GUI, Graham Percival, 2009/12/20
- Re: GUI, Federico Bruni, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI, Francisco Vila, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI, Graham Percival, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI, Federico Bruni, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI, Mats Bengtsson, 2009/12/18
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- Re: GUI, Robert Ley, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI,
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- Re: GUI, Tim McNamara, 2009/12/19
- Re: GUI, Valentin Villenave, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI, Graham Percival, 2009/12/18
- Re: GUI (was: Re: No Work!, Tim McNamara, 2009/12/15
- Re: GUI (was: Re: No Work!, Kees van den Doel, 2009/12/15
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- Re: No Work!, James Bailey, 2009/12/16
- Re: No Work!, James Lowe, 2009/12/16
- Re: No Work!, James Bailey, 2009/12/16
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